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...sure measure of a first-year's naivete is the magnitude of their esteem for the Crimson Key Society. For the duration of their first week on campus, each entering class is greeted, waited upon and gaily entertained by the oft-maligned red-clad herd. And so, after the Ice Cream Bash, "Love Story," and of course the swingin' A Cappella Jam, it is no wonder that so many in the Yard have nothing but warm feelings for our illustrious troupe of tour guides. Sadly, their affections are grievously misplaced...
...offered them stipends. He had a real zest for life. After he collapsed in 1976, the art world thought he was done for. But I'll never forget seeing Leo a year later at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool, proudly standing in his tiny swimsuit among the bikini-clad starlets--despite a new pacemaker visible under his chest...
Every year, Armani-clad National Football League players gather in Hawaii to do savage battle with the league's similarly adorned owners over issues such as salaries, benefits and 'do-rags. And sometimes, as in 1995, according to the New York Times, to not do battle ? in fact, to look the other way ? over a number of players who failed drug tests. The reason? The league was looking for, and got, a tougher drug-abuse policy that is considered one of the most comprehensive in professional sports. For their part, a group of players, which one league official numbered...
...steel-framed bikes were symbols of romantic escapism. Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn putted through Rome on a Vespa in Roman Holiday; it was a favorite toy of Hollywood's elite, including Gary Cooper and Jayne Mansfield. In 1960s England, while big, grease-sputtering Harleys were ridden by leather-clad Rockers, elegant Vespas were the signature of their archrivals--and regular rumble opponents--the fashionable Mods...
...Parliament) indicated last week that they would be receptive to emergency measures--a plan that would allow Yeltsin to postpone elections and engineer a less than democratic transition. Hints of that fear were on display last week, as police tightened security around government buildings, airports and railway stations. Patrols clad in bulletproof vests showed up in the Moscow subway, and armor rolled through Moscow's streets for the first time since the end of the Chechen war in 1996. Dagestan's war--being fought more than 1,000 miles away from Moscow--was finally coming home...